Kopisch describes this second version in a surviving letter to the berlin banker and collector joachim heinrich wilhelm wagener (quoted from exhibition catalogue, berlin, 2016, p. 239): "one can see over the pomptine marshes into the tyrrhenian sea, into which the sun's disk is about to sink. The purple-red sirocco sky is reflected by floodwaters that the river nymphaeus carries to the sea. In the background to the left, the promontory of monte circello, the former island of circe, rises from the reedy plains; further still, one of the ponza islands. To the right of the river, one can see a dilapidated water pipe from the time of the caesars; in the foreground, a half-roman, half-medieval castle ruin with a round tower. The staffage is a herd of wild buffalo swimming from bank to bank. " detail. Object Type: painting. Date: 1848. Dimensions: height: 62 cm (24.4 in) ; width: 111 cm (43.7 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Alte Nationalgalerie. August kopisch, le paludi pontine al tramonto, 1848, 02
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